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Senior Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Austin, TX💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build high-throughput, low-latency Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities for Cloudflare's global Control Plane, ensuring authentication and authorization for customer-facing and internal APIs.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Identity & Access Management)

Builds

Authentication and authorization systems, login/SSO, OAuth, API tokens, account membership, roles, permissions, and SCIM provisioning at global scale.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Identity Management, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, TypeScript, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, ABAC, PostgreSQL, Redis, Distributed Systems, API Design, System Architecture

Preferred skills

Token lifecycle management, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

Responsibilities

Design and build high-throughput IAM capabilities; evolve authentication/authorization systems into distributed edge architectures; translate security requirements into robust APIs; maintain code quality through reviews and design docs; ensure platform reliability and observability; utilize AI tools for code generation and debugging.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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